M. Malmîsanij is a writer, poet and linguist. He was born in 1952 in the town of Piran in the province of Amed in North Kurdistan. He finished high school there, and returned to teach for eight years after his university education in Ankara. He moved to Sweden in 1982. He studied Iranian Studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris, Iranian Languages at Uppsala University, and Folk Education at Linkoping University. He has an MA from the University of Borås and a PhD from the University of Zakho. In the 1970s, Malmîsanij was the first to revive written Kirmanjki, which had not been used since Ehmedê Xasî and Osman Efendî composed their Mawlids in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In fact, Malmîsanij himself would transcribe those two seminal works from Arabic to Latin script, introducing their work to new generations of Kirmanjki readers. He also compiled and published the first Kirmanjki dictionary, in 1987. Active in the blossoming magazine scene of the 1980s and ’90s, he served as an editor of Tîrêj (Izmir), Hêvî (Paris), Armanc (Stockholm), Çarçira (Stockholm), Wan (Stockholm), and Çira (Stockholm). Today he serves as editor in chief of Vate, the magazine of the Vate Study Group, and has been a past president of the Kurdish Writers’ Association in Sweden. He has written 39 books in Kurdish (Kirmanjki and Northern) Turkish, and Swedish, 9 of which have been translated into Arabic, English, and Kurdish (Northern and Central). His poems have been translated into French, Spanish, and Swedish.